Brush holder



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BRUSH HOLDER Filed Dec. 9, 1944 INVENTOR. fia fmond EJ716077)! ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 14, 1945 BRUSH HOLDER Raymond A. Manny, New York, N. Y. Application December 9, 1944, Serial No. 567,360

3 Claims.

The present invention relates to holders for shaving brushes.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a shaving brush holder which is at once simple and inexpensive to make, practical to use and which occupies unused space such as the space immediately below a wash basin shelf.

Another object is the provision of a shaving brush holder which holds the brush, bristles down, thus enabling the water to drain ofif more freely and to prevent the water from soaking into the brush handle. It should be noted that long continued presence of water in and about the bristles may produce an unsanitary brush and a rotting or the bristles and of the material in which they are set, a condition which soon causes the bristles to fall out.

A further object is the provision of a holder for shaving brushes which may be afilxed to a fixture such as the one above mentioned without the use of such conventional means as screws or nails.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective View of the holder shown attached to a shelf, a conventional shaving brush hanging from said holder;

Fig. 2 is a side view of said holder;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a. top View of said holder.

The shaving brush holder It shown in the drawing is made of a unitary length of metal wire or plastic material drawn to the form of metal wire, bent to appropriate shape. It comprises two side members each of which has an upper portion H adapted to receive a conventional removable glass shelf 13 and a lower portion I2 adapted, in association with the corresponding lower portion of the other side member, to receive and hold the handle I4 of a conventional shaving brush l5.

In side elevation, each side member is shaped to the outline of the letter T, having a long and narrow upper cross piece, above identified with the number I I, and a short and wide stem piece, above identified with the number l2, whose lower end l6 slopes downwardly slightly toward the rear. In plan elevation, the lower sloping portion of the stem piece takes the shape of a pair of frogs legs wide open at the front, indicated by the number 11, tapering inwardly toward the center to a constricted portion 18, widening out at the center and toward the rear to form a. pair of facing concave portions 19' which draw together at the rear to form a second constriction 20, narrower than the first.

A bridge 2| having humped portions 22 at each end joins the two side members at the joint where the rear of the stem piece meets the top cross piece. The two ends of the metal wire which comprises the holder meet at the bridge at this point and are looped around the humps to support the rear portion of the stem piece and to prevent displacement of the rear portions of the two side members relative to each other. l

The handle of the conventional shaving brush, as shown in Fig. 1, has a constricted center portion 23. It is this constricted portion that the holder above described grips. To utilize the holder, the brush is held bristles down and inserted through the opening I1 and constriction l8 into the space formed by the two concave po-rtions Hi. The diameter of the constricted portion 23 of the handle is substantially equal to the distance separating the two concave portions at their outermost parts. Since the head 24 of the brush is of a substantially larger diameter, downward displacement or the brush with respect'to the concave portions 19 of the holder is prevented.

hereinabove been described. It is clear that modificatio-ns maybe incorporated therein without departing from the :basic principles of the invention. Specifically, a slightly different shape of the side members may be had providing a mouth portion adapted to receive the handle of a conventional shaving brush, leading to a constricted portion adapted to hold the handle of a conventional shaving brush is formed therein. ther modifications may be incorporated therein as desired.

I claim:

1. A holder for shaving brushes comprising a unitary wire-shaped member bent to form two side portions each of which has an upper portion adapted. to slip over and hang from a conventional medicine cabinet type of removable shelf and a lower portion adapted in association with the corresponding lower portion of the other side portion, to receive and hold the handle of a conventional shaving brush.

2. A holder [for shaving brushes comprising a unitary wire-shaped member bent to form two side portions joined and held against displacement relative to each other by means of a bridge portion, said side portions being adapted to slip over and hang from a conventional medicine cabinet type of removable shelf, said side portions being spaced and bent to provide a. gripping means for the handle of a. conventional shaving brush and a, horizontal path of access orf said handle to said gripping means.

3. A holder for shaving brushes comprising a unitary wire-shaped member bent to form two sid'e portions joined at the rear by a. bridge portion, the upper parts of said side portions being adapted to slip over and hang from a conventional medicine cabinet type of removable shelf, the lower parts of said side portions being adapted to grip between themselves the handle of a conventional shaving brush.

RAYMOND A. MANNY. 

